The Bit Dance- Tilmer Wright Jr.
I very much enjoyed this very near future speculative
fiction. The book centres on a family drama, with a work obsessed and
emotionally distant father, two teenage children that he generally fails to
engage with, and a mum doing her best to hold diverging lives together. Contemporary
drama is very much the emotional driver of this work. The other key elements
revolve around a dangerous terrorist unit of anti-capitalists and robotic toys
that communicate with each other rather too well, when their software is
enhanced with a sort of bee hive logic-based application. Perhaps surprisingly,
the diverse elements of the story bond together very well.
The book is well written, adequately edited and paced
towards a suspenseful climax. In other words, Wright has produced a rewarding
entertainment. As far as my very thin understanding of information technology
goes, the artificial intelligence elements are plausible. I am accepting of the
scientific understanding that sentience developed naturally through animal
evolution. So perhaps that is also a realistic, and possibly even inevitable,
‘evolution’ in computer logic. Certainly, that is the basis of a massive modern
outpouring of science fiction and philosophical thought. ‘We think, therefore
we are’.
I have no hesitation in giving this book five stars on those
media streams that demand such crude stamp collecting. I greatly enjoyed the development
of all of the main characters, including Sherlock, who blossoms late in this worth
reading adventure.
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